Westworld (park)

Westworld

Westworld

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Description

Park One. Westworld is one of the Delos Destinations theme parks

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Experience the first vacation destination where you can live without limits. Westworld is a meticulously crafted and artfully designed park offering an unparalleled, immersive world where you have the freedom to become who you’ve always wanted to be — or who you never knew you were. Exist free of rules, laws or judgment. No impulse is taboo. Our hosts are here to fulfill your every desire. They look forward to serving you.

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–Discover Westworld website

Westworld is a park owned by Delos Incorporated, it was the first park[1] to be built. Guests pay to immerse themselves in a carefully crafted Wild West world. The control center for the park is inside a large mesa. In the episode, "The Original" it is revealed that there were 1,400 guests in the park at that time. Within the park are villages, towns, homesteads, rivers, farms, ranches, and other points of interest which simulate a region of the 19th century American Southwest. These points of interest are populated by hosts. Hosts are lifelike androids built by the park and used to act out story lines and narratives. The hosts interact with each other and with the guests on individual loops; although some hosts have been known to stray from their loops.

By design, guests cannot be killed or hurt by hosts. The firearms in Westworld use a low-velocity technology and ammunition similar to the simunitions (for "simulated munitions") used by the U.S. military for training purposes in 2016. The guests choose whether they want to "go white hat" or "go black hat", and decide which narrative or story lines they want to pursue. Guests pay over $40,000 per day visit Westworld.

The series was filmed throughout the southwestern USA, in locations such as Castle Valley, Moab, Vasquez Rocks, and sound stages in Los Angeles.

The LA locations used are at one of the oldest studios in the world, "Melody Ranch".[2] The studio was established in 1915 and has been used to film many familiar films and TV shows: Gunsmoke, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, The Lone Ranger, Django Unchained, Deadwood